28' Vintage Trailer & 1969 Camaro B/SA Car Stolen

[SSGN]

Post all the particulars on Yellowbullet, lots of eyes on there and we will keep our eyes open.

Kevin

http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/index.php

[Bernie Cunningham]

OMG, Carl. I can't believe this, I'm so heartbroken for you.

Your beautiful car and trailer, just gone, ????

Hope things work out for ya, most thieves are stupid and I know you can out smart them !! God luck my friend.

[Carl Battis]

Originally Posted by Bernie Cunningham

OMG, Carl. I can't believe this, I'm so heartbroken for you.

Your beautiful car and trailer, just gone, ????

Hope things work out for ya, most thieves are stupid and I know you can out smart them !! God luck my friend.

Thanks Bernie. Yes it true - I got a call today that around 7:30 CST in Arlington TX where the car was in storage that thieves had cut the gates open and came into the storage facility. They used a grinder to cut the locks on my trailer and hooked it up and towed it away. The whole incident was captured on video and was tuned over to Arlington PD. The thieves were wearing hoodies - no masks - and were driving a blue Suburban with no plates.

Somebody has to know know something about this. There has been a lot of message traffic online today on a variety of sites. I am hoping that the car will turn up undamaged. Thanks for your concern...

Carl

[Chuck Norton]

Any news on your rig, Carl?

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[4543]

Carl. I hope they find your rig. You have more to go on than I did last year when they broke into my enclosed trailer in a storage yard in central Texas. I was fortunate to get a detective assigned to the case who never gave up and was able to recover some of the items including the complete stocker engine they stole. Three of the five people involved go to trial next month and there is plenty of evidence to convict. While it will still take me another year to replace everything I lost the good news is that if they recovered my stuff there is reason to hope that they will find yours. There has been a rash of enclosed trailers broken into so please everyone take every precaution you can to protect yours. Mike McMahan

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Put in on hotrodhotline.com

They have a stolen vehicle section.

[Carl Battis]

Nov 6, 2013 6:20CST Update

First off, I want to thank everybody who has called, emailed, texted etc. over the past few days to offer help or condolences. The drag racing community is special in that way - who else would loan parts to their next round opponent just because they are in need? Certainly not the norm in today's world - and it makes me proud to be a part of the drag racing community.

The trailer was recovered yesterday morning by the Grand Prairie, TX police department. I checked it out this morning at the impound lot - a bittersweet experience to be sure. All the good stuff is gone - my beautiful B/SA Camaro, the Honda Q3500 generator, a brand new transmission from Remac (thanks Leo - sorry I never got to run it!), a set of S&M lifters etc......you get the idea.

So now I have a trailer that needs a bunch of repair from the butchery inflicted to open it up and strip it - and no car to haul around or race. Detectives from several cities are coordinating the investigation as my car was taken by a well-known set of thieves who have been very busy in this area the last month. Let's hope they can find the car before too long.

In the meantime I have offered a substantial - no questions asked - $$ reward for the return of the car. I am hopeful that somebody knows somebody who knows somebody who can figure out a way to get the car out of hiding and returned in order to collect the reward. I just want to go racing again in my car.

[Ghost Missle]

I feel your pain.......Hate hearing this stuff!

One of my good friends came out of a hotel at Goodguys Columbus
at 5:30 am to meet PHR for a photo shoot and one of his two rigs
(the one for the shoot) was gone!

Ford F350 dually and enclosed trailer never recovered. The just
completed custom Nova was found a few months later inside of
another stolen trailer on a farm in Belfountaine, OH - scarred and
with the engine destroyed like they put a brick on the accelerator.

Evidently, a drug dealer owned the farm and had a bunch of young
addicts stealing anything and everything in exchange for drugs.

He recovered and repaired the car and it was then in PHR the
next year.